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Declassified U2 Spy Plane Images Reveal Ancient Sites

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday April 16 2019, @09:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the not-the-band dept.

realDonaldTrump writes:

They have the video of this one. But, you can see the same pictures in the story! video.foxnews.com/v/6025742648001

foxnews.com/science/declassified-u2-spy-plane-images-reveal-ancient-sites

Emily Hammer, assistant professor of near eastern languages and civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania and Jason Ur, professor of anthropology at Harvard, painstakingly analyzed thousands of once-secret aerial photos from the 50s and 60s.

The images, for example, reveal “desert kites,” which are ancient stone wall structures used to trap animals such as gazelle. An Assyrian canal system in northern Iraq was also spotted in the images, providing a glimpse into the ancient empire’s government and transport network.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 16 2019, @09:44AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 16 2019, @09:44AM (#830347)

    I can't wait until they release declassified images (especially the IR camera ones) from their UK overflights so that we can do the same with them...

    What do you mean, the UK is an ally? what's one of them, then?